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Trumpet at Dublin Book Festival: Fear and Release

Join editor Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan for a wide-ranging conversation with Trumpet contributors, delving into different responses to ‘Fear and Release’.

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Poetry Ireland's Alphabet Blitz for the City of Dublin (ABCD project)

An invitation from Poetry Ireland’s Poet in Residence, Catherine Ann Cullen, to groups and individuals to make a rhyming alphabet for Dublin.

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Q&A with Poet in Residence Catherine Ann Cullen

Poetry Aloud competition is open for virtual entries from schools

Schools - it’s time to get involved in the Alphabet Blitz for the City of Dublin

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Pride of place in Poetry Ireland Review 131, edited by Colette Bryce, is given to two as-yet-unpublished poems from Eavan Boland's final collection, The Historians, along with ‘Remembering Eavan’, Jody Allen Randolph’s poignant tribute to the poet.

The issue also contains new work from Derek Mahon, Leontia Flynn, Harry Clifton, Dairena Ní Chinnéide, and Colm Tóibín, along with the emerging voices of Sree Sen, Nithy Kasa, Audrey Molloy, Padraig Regan, and many others.

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Poem of the week

Montaigne’s Moustache by Claudine Toutoungi

was massy and abundant and Michel professed it acted
as a barrier against contagion, citing the fact he never
once caught plague, as proof indisputable of its sublime
proficiency as microbe-barricade par excellence.

I think I’ll grow one

dense and luxuriant, a display that will erase all
question marks regarding the extent of my personal
virility and I will oil it. Oh I will oil its splendour into

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